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Amory Lovins and His Nuclear Illusion Part Five (Nuclear Plant Reliability)

Posted on June 26, 2008

We are now on part five in the continuing series that seriously looks at RMI s latest nuclear bashing paper. RMI tries extremely hard on pages 21-26 in their paper to show that nuclear plants are unreliable. Sadly for RMI, a widely publicized set of data refutes their claim: capacity factors. A capacity factor is the amount of electricity a power plant actually produces in a period of time divided by the amount of electricity the plant is rated to produce during that same period of time. A high capacity factor implies high reliability.From RMI, page 24 (pdf):Though micropower s unreliabili...

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